Classroom Timers: Visual Countdowns for the Board and the Projector

Countdowns that open already set, fill the screen and show the class how much time is left at a glance.

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5 Minute TimerAlready set to 5:00: press Start with music, then Full screen, and the whole room can see the time left. Station turn · Exit ticket · Water and stretch break
10 Minute TimerA 10 minute timer that opens already set: press Start with music, or choose No music first. Read-aloud chapter · Journal entry · Morning meeting
20 Minute TimerSet a timer for 20 minutes with one press: Start with music, and it shows the clock time it ends. Reading conferences · Group project sprint · Worksheet and self-check
Visual TimerPress Start the timer and the colored disc shrinks, with no digits to read until the time is up. Dressing for outside · Screen time countdown · Art or building project
Sand Timer OnlineThis online sand timer is a 3 minute hourglass timer: press Start the timer, and Flip it refills the glass. Beat the glass tidy-up · Drawing game turn · Partner answer, then flip
Timer With MusicPick a track in the Music list, press Start with music, and the class has until the music stops. Morning arrival · Two-minute desk clear · Writing while the music plays
1 Minute TimerSet to 1 minute: press Start with music, or pick No music first for a quiet 60 seconds. Minute of listening · Carpet to desks · Pulse count
2 Minute TimerAlready set to 2:00: press Start with music, or pick No music first for a silent countdown. Speed interviews in two circles · Book tasting · One sentence, then make it better
3 Minute TimerThree minutes on a disc of three slices: press Start with music and one slice goes each minute. Hot seat in role · Materials out, names on · One-minute pose sketches
4 Minute TimerFour minutes on a bar that loses a quarter each minute: press Start with music. Four-line poem · Four at a table, a minute each · Four-poster gallery walk
15 Minute TimerOpens set to 15:00: press Start with music, or switch the Music list to No music for a silent timer. Choice time · Dictation sentences · Drop everything and read
1 Hour TimerA 1 hour timer set to 60 minutes: press Start with music and the disc empties at minute-hand speed. One hour essay · Science lab hour · Twelve 5 minute talks
2 Hour TimerAlready set to 2 hours: press Start the timer and the digits count down in hours and minutes. Four rounds of 25 and 5 · Six station field day · Homework club
Digital Classroom TimerTap the digits to type your own time, press Start the timer, and they count down to 0:00. 45 minute period · 30 second think time · Three 4 minute rounds
Online TimerPress a length or type your own, then press Start the timer: a full screen countdown timer. Staff workshop morning · Seed planting at the science table · Computer lab session
Study TimerPress Start the timer: 30 minutes on the disc, and the last 5 change color for the break. Short round: 15 and 5 · Self-quiz, then a break · Read, log it, then a break
Speech TimerPress Start the timer: big digits count down from 3:00, then count up to show how far over. Poster talk with questions · Sharing turn in the circle · How-to speech with a demonstration
Seconds TimerPress Start the timer: 30 seconds on a shrinking bar, counted 30, 29, 28 down to 0. Desks down to a pencil · Draw what was just taught · Wait before you call on anyone
Classroom StopwatchPress Start the stopwatch and it counts up in large digits until you press Stop.

Every timer here opens already set: press Start, then Full screen, and the time fills the screen. The 5, 10 and 20 minute timers show a disc that loses a slice each minute, with classroom routines whose cues appear on time.

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The visual timer hides the digits until the end. The digital timer shows the digits alone and takes the length you type, to the second. The sand timer is a glass you flip. The timer with music stays silent until you press Music, then plays one of four tracks made in the browser and stops when the time is up. Set a timer has length buttons from 1 to 30 minutes and takes a typed length. The study timer runs 25 minutes of work and a 5 minute break, the speech timer counts up once the time is over, and the seconds timer counts 30, 29, 28.

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